Artefatos semânticos de negócio aplicados ao contexto de empresa integrada

Abstract

The integration between various business partners is an essential feature for a company to develop fully in the contemporary market scenario. One way to enable this interoperability is through modeling of business processes using Business Artifacts. However, the process that allows the exchange of business information between two different companies may prove more complicated than it appears. Problems with lack of standardization, data inconsistency and ambiguous interpretations are frequent. A number of references pointed alleged advantages of using semantic models standards. However, there has been a lack of studies that demonstrate how these alleged benefits are given in practice. With these observations is that this study aimed to verify the technical feasibility and the supposed advantages when using Business Artifacts with enhanced semantic capacity By comparing the non-semantic Business Artifacts modeling with semantic models in several raised proof scenarios, was verified the feasibility of the concept of Semantic Models for Business Artifacts. It was noted that when used merely as a model protocol for the exchange of information, semantic models can prove to be unnecessarily complex. However, due to its semantic expressiveness, these models allow major improvements in the context of interoperability standards, especially in scenarios where classification relationships are important and various restrictions need to be applied to the model information.